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Law in Contemporary Society
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In discussing some of our class reading with friends, this Walt Whitman poem came to mind. I believe it echoes and expands upon some of the themes we've been dancing around. Enjoy!
Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
(I accessed the poem here: http://www.bartleby.com/142/180.html)
-- SherieGertler - 27 Feb 2012
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